“Aftersun” is a Massive Attack track with guest vocals from Dot Allison, heard exclusively during the end credits of the 2004 Jet Li starring film Danny The Dog.

Dot Allison had previously been the lead singer for the early 90’s Scottish band One Dove, before releasing two solo albums before collaborating with Massive Attack. She would then go on to be apart of Massive Attack’s 100th Window tour of 2003-2004, substituting for the lack of Elizabeth Fraser and Sinéad O'Connor on that tour.

Back in 2001, news first broke via the NME magazine, that Dot Allison had contributed vocals to at least two Massive Attack songs. One of these songs would eventually form the basis for the track “Aftersun,” when Massive Attack revisited it during the scoring sessions for Danny The Dog’s soundtrack in late 2003/early 2004, after the director of the film, Louis Leterrier, requested of Massive Attack a song with vocals to be played over the film’s end credits.

The film’s soundtrack album which was released in October 2004, contained over 50 minutes of instrumental music, but “Aftersun” was for undisclosed reasons omitted. Later that same year with Massive Attack’s permission, Dot Allison released a M4A of the track via her website. Since then, “Aftersun” has not received any other type of release, either physically on disc or digitally online.

The only publicly available version of “Aftersun,” heard in the end credits is said to not be the finished mix of the song and neither Massive Attack nor Dot Allison is entirely satisfied with it. Dot Allison described it as being more of a “demo”, in one interview at the time. This may have been the undisclosed reason why the track was ultimately left off the soundtrack album.